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Prior to Net Energy Metering (NEM) policies, utility customers who installed a solar or other renewable generation system had two options for dealing with excess generation. One, they could certify it as a qualifying facility under the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURPA) of 1978 and sell that energy at the utility’s avoided-cost rate. As an alternative, consumers could install batteries to store the energy produced by their systems to deliver the power when they needed it. With the advent of NEM policies, the economic incentives for installing distributed energy systems improved, and NEM has become one of the most important policy tools for supporting distributed generation. For more information, see the full policy brief.

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This website, and the data contained within it, should not be used to score or rank states. Moreover, the component questions within a given policy, although they are represented together graphically, are not additive. The SPOT for Clean Energy is intended to illustrate the policies each state currently has in place, which elements those policies contain, or do not contain, and key questions to ask. All information contained in this database is derived from information in the public domain. Nothing here constitutes legal advice.